Ancient romans named the days of the week after the 7 celestial bodies known at that time. Lunae, Martis, Mercurii, Iovis, Veneris, Saturni, Solis. They sound familiar don’t they? That’s because the celestial bodies took the names of the most important roman gods. And not only the names, but their powers, their gifts, their curses and their entire supernatural symbolism.
I’ve always been fascinated by symbols and associations, by our deeply human search for meaning and interpretation of nature. The older they are, the more mystery, the more ancient wisdom, the closer to the core. It’s so inspiring, like pressing a button to activate that part of my brain that is never too tired to draw one more connection between aparently unrelated things 🙂
For the first time in my life, I have more time to focus on personal projects, little sparks of ideas that are eager to grow and meet the world. Some are big, like a story I’ve started to write 1 year ago and promised to finish this year. Others are smaller, like trying Canva to see if it can help me in future projects. And the list goes on. It’s hard to be your own project manager I hear, especially for creative people who pick up ideas from all around.
Let’s get organized, I said, and grabbed a pencil and drew some lines to shape a calendar for the 5 days of the working week. Just that instead of writing Monday, Tuesday …or Luni, Marti, Miercuri in Romanian, my mother tongue, I drew a moon for Monday, a Mars for Tuesday, a little Mercury for Wednesday, a fat Jupiter for Thursday and finally a burning Venus for Friday.
All of a sudden, getting organized was fun! You can imagine the free association that came after. Even if you’ve read your horoscope or not, you know that Venus was the goddess of love and grace and represents everything from beauty to intense desire. It just happens that the planet Venus is inhabited only by exploding vulcanoes, but love burns and we’re fine with it. The moon, waving our seas and lighting our darkest nights, the first representative of our subconscious mind. And Jupiter, the giant above all, the thunder that you can’t catch in the palm of your hand, but only see with your mind.
I’ve decided to associate each day of the week with the symbolism and energy of the celestial body and the god that it was named after. Next, I found a verb that best describes this energy so I can give an action theme to each day. And last, I’ve used canva.com to create this simple calendar system to organize my creative endeavours.
I’m excited about it! I forgot who said that us humans are “meaning making machines”, but it doesn’t matter. I’m just grateful we are.
References and inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week
The Energy Calendar
Ancient romans named the days of the week after the 7 celestial bodies known at that time. Lunae, Martis, Mercurii, Iovis, Veneris, Saturni, Solis. They sound familiar don’t they? That’s because the celestial bodies took the names of the most important roman gods. And not only the names, but their powers, their gifts, their curses and their entire supernatural symbolism.
I’ve always been fascinated by symbols and associations, by our deeply human search for meaning and interpretation of nature. The older they are, the more mystery, the more ancient wisdom, the closer to the core. It’s so inspiring, like pressing a button to activate that part of my brain that is never too tired to draw one more connection between aparently unrelated things 🙂
For the first time in my life, I have more time to focus on personal projects, little sparks of ideas that are eager to grow and meet the world. Some are big, like a story I’ve started to write 1 year ago and promised to finish this year. Others are smaller, like trying Canva to see if it can help me in future projects. And the list goes on. It’s hard to be your own project manager I hear, especially for creative people who pick up ideas from all around.
Let’s get organized, I said, and grabbed a pencil and drew some lines to shape a calendar for the 5 days of the working week. Just that instead of writing Monday, Tuesday …or Luni, Marti, Miercuri in Romanian, my mother tongue, I drew a moon for Monday, a Mars for Tuesday, a little Mercury for Wednesday, a fat Jupiter for Thursday and finally a burning Venus for Friday.
All of a sudden, getting organized was fun! You can imagine the free association that came after. Even if you’ve read your horoscope or not, you know that Venus was the goddess of love and grace and represents everything from beauty to intense desire. It just happens that the planet Venus is inhabited only by exploding vulcanoes, but love burns and we’re fine with it. The moon, waving our seas and lighting our darkest nights, the first representative of our subconscious mind. And Jupiter, the giant above all, the thunder that you can’t catch in the palm of your hand, but only see with your mind.
I’ve decided to associate each day of the week with the symbolism and energy of the celestial body and the god that it was named after. Next, I found a verb that best describes this energy so I can give an action theme to each day. And last, I’ve used canva.com to create this simple calendar system to organize my creative endeavours.
I’m excited about it! I forgot who said that us humans are “meaning making machines”, but it doesn’t matter. I’m just grateful we are.
References and inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week